Improvement in lamp-lighters



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a* viIl-mx UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE.

JOHN O. GOULD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

`IMPRCVEMNT IN LAMPLIGHTERS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,328, dated August 25, 1874; application filed April 4, 1874.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, J oHN C. GOULD, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Lamp-Lighters, of which the following is a specification:

The object of the said invention is to furnish a torch for lighting gas and lamps without removing the chimney or shade, and that will burn only a short space of time, and may be easily renewed as often as may be required. It consists of an oil-can with a spring-bottom and a long nozzle with a Very line bore, such as are called capillary tubes.77 The outside of the nozzle-tube is covered with a few inches of wick and an outer sheath of metal the same length as the inner one, being the nozzle-tube,

and ttin g tightly on the outside of' the wick.V

The inversion of the can or the action of the sprin g-bottom forces a drop or two of oil from the can to the interior of the wick that surg rounds and covers the end of the tube, and,

on being lighted, it may be thrust under the edge of the shade to a gasburner, or down the'chimney of an ordinary kerosene-lamp.

The wick may be trimmed short to burn but half a minute, or left projecting to burn longer, and the outer sheath may be slipped up to lessen the size of the ame.

When the light has nearly burned out it may be renewed by inversion, or by pressure on the can, which, in this respect, may be of any of the kinds known as spring-cans in ordinary use.

To enable others skilled in the arts to which it appertains to make and use my invention,

I will proceed to describe its construction and operation with reference to the drawing.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a lighter for domestic use. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section ofthe nozzle of the same at x, and Fig. 3 is a` longitudinal section of the upper part of the nozzle.

The spring-can a may be made elastic or compressible in any of the ways that are well y known to mechanics. rEhe inner tube c of the nozzle b, which is shown in dotted lilies, Fig. 1, is screwed into the can, and has a very fine bore at the top. The outer tube or sheath d lits tightly to the inner one at the bottom, and to the wick c at the top. The surface of the inner tube should be roughened, that the wick may not slip on it too easily. If the outer tube fits over the wick too tightly the wick will slip with it when moved upto lessen the Haine; and this may be remedied by a thread on the wick reaching below the lower end of the wick.

For reaching a long distance, to which the nozzle may not be extended, the lighter may be mounted on a handle and the compressibility of the can controlled by any convenient means. `f

I claim as my invention- The combination of a spring oil-can with an outer and inner tube, forming a double nozzle and inclosing a wick, substantially as described.

JOHN C. GOULD. Witnesses:

' W. K. HALL,

W. H. NEwseHAEEE. 

